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Alexander McGillivray and the Creek Confederacy

Author : R. Michael Pryor
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Creek Indians
ISBN : 1453761071

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Ethnicity, economics, and warfare! These were the factors that shaped the southern backcountry during the eighteenth century. Alexander McGillivray was by far one of the most influential Native American leaders from the Revolutionary and Federalist era. He became a central figure in the territorial struggles for commerce, sovereignty, and identity in what is now the southeastern region of the United States. In order to defend the borders of the Creek Confederacy McGillivray used an amazing mixture of political shrewdness, economic monopolization, and diplomatic finesse. During his relatively brief life of forty-three years he was commissioned as a British officer, a Spanish colonel, and an American brigadier general. However, throughout all of these seemingly conflicting positions he maintained an unyielding support for the Creek Indians and their right to exist as a people.

mcgillivray of the greeks

Author : john walton caughey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Diplomat in Warpaint

Author : Arthur Orrmont
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Creek Indians
ISBN : UCSC:32106000553591

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Diplomat in Warpaint by Arthur Orrmont Pdf

A biography of a man of mixed Scottish and Indian blood who, as chief of the Creek Indians and friend of the British, defended his people's rights against Spanish and American encroachments during and after the American Revolution.

Creek Indian History

Author : George Stiggins
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817350017

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Creek Indian History by George Stiggins Pdf

Based on a handwritten manuscript more than 150 years old, Creek Indian History is a primary resource containing accounts of significant Indian/white encounters in early Alabama history--from the Indian perspective. Written in the early 1800s by George Stiggins, the son of a Creek mother and a white father, this volume recounts the origins and ways of life of the tribes of the Creek Confederacy and their viewpoints on such key events of the Creek War as Burnt Corn and Fort Mims. Stiggins was William Weatherford's brother-in-law, and thus his explanation of Weatherford's controversial role in the Creek War has special value. William Wyman's notes and introduction put the Stiggins account in historical perspective and traces its circuitous route to publication.

The Creek

Author : Tracey Boraas
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 073681566X

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The Creek by Tracey Boraas Pdf

An overview of the past and present of the Creek people. Traces their customs, family life, history, and culture, as well as relations with the U.S. government.

Independence Lost

Author : Kathleen DuVal
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812981209

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Independence Lost by Kathleen DuVal Pdf

A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award • Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey History Prize • Finalist for the George Washington Book Prize Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers: the history of the Revolutionary Era as experienced by slaves, American Indians, women, and British loyalists living on Florida’s Gulf Coast. While citizens of the thirteen rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation on the rest of the continent was even more fraught. In the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish forces clashed with Britain’s strained army to carve up the Gulf Coast, as both sides competed for allegiances with the powerful Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek nations who inhabited the region. Meanwhile, African American slaves had little control over their own lives, but some individuals found opportunities to expand their freedoms during the war. Independence Lost reveals that individual motives counted as much as the ideals of liberty and freedom the Founders espoused: Independence had a personal as well as national meaning, and the choices made by people living outside the colonies were of critical importance to the war’s outcome. DuVal introduces us to the Mobile slave Petit Jean, who organized militias to fight the British at sea; the Chickasaw diplomat Payamataha, who worked to keep his people out of war; New Orleans merchant Oliver Pollock and his wife, Margaret O’Brien Pollock, who risked their own wealth to organize funds and garner Spanish support for the American Revolution; the half-Scottish-Creek leader Alexander McGillivray, who fought to protect indigenous interests from European imperial encroachment; the Cajun refugee Amand Broussard, who spent a lifetime in conflict with the British; and Scottish loyalists James and Isabella Bruce, whose work on behalf of the British Empire placed them in grave danger. Their lives illuminate the fateful events that took place along the Gulf of Mexico and, in the process, changed the history of North America itself. Adding new depth and moral complexity, Kathleen DuVal reinvigorates the story of the American Revolution. Independence Lost is a bold work that fully establishes the reputation of a historian who is already regarded as one of her generation’s best. Praise for Independence Lost “[An] astonishing story . . . Independence Lost will knock your socks off. To read [this book] is to see that the task of recovering the entire American Revolution has barely begun.”—The New York Times Book Review “A richly documented and compelling account.”—The Wall Street Journal “A remarkable, necessary—and entirely new—book about the American Revolution.”—The Daily Beast “A completely new take on the American Revolution, rife with pathos, double-dealing, and intrigue.”—Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World

The American Revolution in Indian Country

Author : Colin G. Calloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521475694

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The American Revolution in Indian Country by Colin G. Calloway Pdf

Examines the Native American experience during the American Revolution.

The Creeks

Author : Michael D. Green
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035681324

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The Creeks by Michael D. Green Pdf

The Second Creek War

Author : John T. Ellisor
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496217080

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The Second Creek War by John T. Ellisor Pdf

Historians have traditionally viewed the Creek War of 1836 as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that in fact the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after peace was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor’s study also broadly illuminates southern society just before the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland. Yet the resulting Second Creek War that raged over three states was fueled both by Native determination and by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.

Creeks and Southerners

Author : Andrew Frank
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803220164

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Creeks and Southerners by Andrew Frank Pdf

"Creeks and Southerners studies the ways in which many children of these relationships lived both as Creek Indians and white Southerners. By carefully altering their physical appearances, choosing appropriate clothing, learning multiple languages, embracing maternal and paternal kinsmen and kinswomen, and balancing their loyalties, the children of intermarriages found ways to bridge what seemed to be an unbridgeable divide."--BOOK JACKET.

McIntosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders

Author : Benjamin W. Griffith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019350506

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Drawing by Stealth

Author : Virginia Pounds Brown,Linda McNair Cohen
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603063630

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Drawing by Stealth by Virginia Pounds Brown,Linda McNair Cohen Pdf

In this provocative essay, the authors explore how John Trumbull, famed painter of the American Revolutionary War period, came to make sketches of five Creek Indian leaders in New York in 1790. By chance, Trumbull was painting George Washington’s portrait for the City of New York when a delegation of Creeks arrived to sign the Treaty of New York. Finding himself in the company of the Creeks, the artist seized the opportunity to draw them. While Drawing By Stealth tells the history of these iconic drawings of American Indians, it also provides details about the clothing and ornaments depicted and corrects a popular -- but erroneous -- theory that one of the images is of the leader of the Creek delegation to New York, Alexander McGillivray.

The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders

Author : Amos J. Wright
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603060141

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The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders by Amos J. Wright Pdf

Amos Wright unveils exhaustive research following two extended Scottish clans as they made their way across the ocean to the American frontier. Once they arrived, the two families made an impact on the colonials, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the American Indians. Some of the Scots were ambitious traders, some were representatives for the Indians, some were warriors, and one ended up as a chief. This annotated history delves into the harsh and often violent lives of Scottish traders living on the frontier of colonial America.

A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy

Author : G. W. Grayson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806123222

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A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy by G. W. Grayson Pdf

"The publication of George Washington Grayson's autobiography brings to light perhaps the only existing written account of a nineteenth-century Indian leader. Born in 1843 near present-day Eufaula, Oklahoma, Grayson served as a Confederate army officer during the Civil War and in various offices of the Creek Nation from 1870 until his death in 1920. . . .Baird has produced an excellent edition that makes Grayson's autobiography more accessible and that should bring it the attention it deserves."–Montana: Magazine of Western History